FOR RELEASE SUNDAY, MARCH 29, 2015, AT 12:01 A.M. CDT.- File-This is April 8, 1992 file photograph of author and scholar Margaret Walker Alexander, 83, photographed as she accepted the Mississippi Arts Commission's Lifetime Achievement Award in Jackson, Miss. Alexander is one of major artists in the literary and visual arts including author and photographer Eudora Welty and artist Marie Hull, who are in the spotlight this year, with major events and exhibitions to propel fresh perspectives and new eyes on their works and legacies. (AP Photo/AP Files)